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Little Sunshine Doula Services, LLC

✨ central VA ✨doula ✨holistic pregnancy and childbirth education ✨placenta encapsulation and art ✨ holistic childbirth consulting ✨

I support expecting women and families physically, emotionally, and informationally as they prepare for birth! Then I provide continuous labor support, and check in post partum as well. I offer a free prenatal meeting to see if we’d be a good fit, hear about your goals/vision for birth, and tell you more specifics about my services.

02/12/2026

Enrollment is open for the next round of my Holistic Pregnancy & Childbirth Series 💛✨I hope to begin later this month, and there are just a few spots left.

This is a 5-part virtual series…we meet weekly over Zoom (2 hours each session) on Sunday evenings at 8 pm. Classes are recorded so you never miss anything and always have it for future reference and review!

I didn’t create this course so you could memorize everything there is to know about birth… I created it so you can have such a rooted understanding of physiological birth… that you TRUST IT 🫶🏼 I created this course to be exactly what I wished I’d had access to as I prepared to become a mother for the first time.

Inside this series we cover:
• Pre-conception nutrition + preparing your body before pregnancy
• Supporting your body holistically during pregnancy
• The father’s role in pregnancy, birth, and postpartum
• The altered brain wave states of labor (“laborland”) and why it’s part of the design
• The cardinal movements (baby’s journey through the pelvis)
• The holistic stages of labor + physiological birth
• Mental and physical birth preparation
• Postpartum planning + breastfeeding foundations

This isn’t about performing birth “correctly.”
It’s about understanding how intricately designed it already is.

When you understand what birth is doing…
You stop trying to control it.
You stop second-guessing it.
You begin to surrender to it.

Cost is $300 per couple (payment plans available).

If you’ve been feeling the nudge, this might be your sign 🫶🏼 Message me for details or to claim one of the remaining spots!!!

Sharing some photos from my 4th birth almost 2 years ago because I just loved that birth experience so much, and Carpe Diem Photography captured it perfectly!

12/10/2025

Teaching moment 🥹

While their daddy worked from home today, the kids were wide awake for a little glimpse into mama’s world. Usually they’re sleeping when I work with placentas. But today I invited them in as I prepared a placenta—a beautiful reminder of the lifeline that carried a new little soul earthside last night.

We talk often about belly buttons, placentas, amniotic sacs, and umbilical cords… but there’s something powerful about seeing the design firsthand.

So grateful for the honor of serving mothers in this sacred way, and for the chance to show my own children the miracle and mystery woven into every pregnancy and birth. 🌾✨

08/31/2025

🏥 Hospital birth classes teach you how to be a good patient — you’ll learn a lot about policies and procedures, and nothing about nutrition, your body’s wisdom, and the intricate design of physiological birth. My holistic series prepares you to be a powerful mother. The next round begins in one week — join us to step into birth with knowledge, confidence, and trust in your body’s design.

💛 I teach virtually over zoom so anyone anywhere can join!

📩 Message me to register and reserve your spot! And if you sign up with a friend, you each get $50 off!

📸 Carpe Diem Photography

08/30/2025

🌸 Another mama’s placenta honored and prepared as medicine, with her baby’s cord preserved in a precious “M” keepsake — since baby’s name begins with M. She also requested one of her placenta prints be made to look like a tree, a beautiful symbol of life and connection 🌳✨ I think it turned out like a cute little bonsai tree 🥹

I offer package options that include:
✨ Capsules + cord keepsake
✨ Capsules + cord keepsake + tincture + artwork
✨ Artwork only

It’s such a joy to weave together two of my passions — birthwork and art — to create these treasures for mothers and their little ones. 💛

08/27/2025

The next round of my holistic pregnancy, childbirth, and postpartum course begins September 7!! I wanted to create a course that covered the wisdom and information I was longing for in my first 2 pregnancies but had no idea where/how to find it! And being intentional about taking charge of your experience begins with nourishing yourself well, prior to conception. My course includes a lot about this too!

Classes are held virtually over Zoom, so anyone anywhere can participate! Please DM me if you’d like to be included so I can get you registered! And if you and a friend take the course together, you each get $50 off! More info below 👇🏼

✨ Pregnancy + Birth are not medical events…
They are sacred, physiological, transformational rites of passage.

If you’re planning for motherhood—or already pregnant—and desiring a more rooted, intuitive, and whole-body approach to pregnancy, birth, and postpartum…
This course was made for you.

Taught live over Zoom, this 5-part series will guide you through:

🌿 Nourishing your body for fertility + pregnancy
🌿 Supporting your body’s intelligent design throughout pregnancy
🌿 The father’s role in pregnancy and birth, how he supports and serves you
🌿 The altered brain wave states of labor and how to preserve them
🌿 The Stages of Labor thru 2 different lenses (clinical and holistic)
🌿 Learning how your baby navigates the pelvis through the cardinal movements of birth, so you can trust the journey as it unfolds
🌿 Preparing for a supported postpartum, intro to breastfeeding, and supporting biological infant sleep

This is not your typical childbirth education. This is for the women who want to remember their power and trust their Creator’s design. Enrollment is open now. $300 per couple 💛🫶🏼✨

07/24/2025

✨ I just have to share how much I’m loving walking through my holistic pregnancy and childbirth course with the couples in my current round. 💛 The conversations, the depth, the “aha” moments—it’s been beautiful to witness and an honor to hold space for.

When I first launched this offering, I called it a 4-part series. But I quickly realized there was so much goodness packed into this course that trying to squeeze it into four sessions felt rushed. This first group has been my beautiful guinea pig group (they know it! 😉), and it’s shown me that this material deserves more room to breathe.

🌿 So moving forward, this will now be a 6-part series—giving us time to dive even deeper into nourishment, physiology, the husband’s support role in pregnancy and birth, holistic and clinical stages of labor, postpartum, and the sacred rite of passage that is becoming Mother.

Here’s a little love note from one of the women currently going through the course 🥹

"My Fiancé and I are so grateful to have found Shelby! It has been a blessing to have her walk with us in the beginning of our journey to conceive and prepare for birth. She is so knowledgeable, so wise, and SO kind and supportive. She answers all my questions and never makes me feel dumb or crazy. As the first woman in my family and inner circle to be hoping to birth at home, I am so excited and grateful to have Shelby walking us through this journey and helping me prepare my body, heart, mind, and soul. Every mom or husband and wife trying to have a baby or already pregnant should take this course with Shelby! I cannot recommend it enough!" - Abi

💛 New round launching soon!

Buddy Bonus: Register with a friend, and you’ll each get $50 off your registration. Because walking this journey alongside a like-minded mama? That’s medicine in itself. 🕊️

If you’re pregnant or hoping to conceive and you want to approach the journey from a place of sovereignty, trust, and deep-rooted wisdom—this is for you. 🌻

07/03/2025

✨ Last Call! ✨

My 4-part virtual pregnancy, childbirth, and postpartum education series begins this Sunday, and there’s still time to join us!

This course is for women and families who desire more than just hospital protocol and fear-based information. It’s for those who want to understand the physiological design of birth — how our bodies, our babies, and our hormones are divinely and biologically designed to work together.

You’ll learn how to work with your body, not against it.
How to trust the Creator’s perfect blueprint for birth.
How to prepare for labor with confidence, clarity, and reverence.
How to reclaim your authority, autonomy, and sovereignty in motherhood.

Whether you’re planning a home birth, birth center birth, or hospital birth — this space is for you.

🕊 4 live sessions
💻 Held virtually — replay available
💛 $300 per family (payment plan available)

If your heart is nudging you to go deeper, now is the time.
Message me or comment below to grab your spot — we begin this Sunday, July 6th!

Resharing my favorite gender reveal photo I captured of my sweet friend Allison Parker 🫶🏼✨

06/18/2025

As some of you may know, I am now offering a 4 part holistic pregnancy and childbirth course series! I wanted to create a course that covered the wisdom and information I was longing for in my first pregnancy but had no idea where/how to find it! And being intentional about taking charge of your experience begins with nourishing yourself well, prior to conception. My course includes a lot about this too!

I will be beginning my first round in July! It will be held virtually over Zoom, so anyone anywhere can participate! I’ve already got families from multiple states planning on being a part 😍 Please DM me if you’d like to be included so I can get you on my email distribution list 💛 More info below 👇🏼

✨ Pregnancy + Birth are not medical events…
They are sacred, physiological, transformational rites of passage.

If you’re planning for motherhood—or already pregnant—and desiring a more rooted, intuitive, and whole-body approach to pregnancy, birth, and postpartum…
This course was made for you.

Taught live over Zoom, this 4-part series will guide you through:

🌿 Nourishing your body for fertility + pregnancy
🌿 Supporting your body’s intelligent design throughout pregnancy
🌿 The father’s role in pregnancy and birth, how he supports and serves you
🌿 Understanding birth through the Holistic Stages of Labor (as taught by Whapio Diane Bartlett)
🌿 Learning how your baby navigates the pelvis through the cardinal movements of birth, so you can trust the journey as it unfolds
🌿 Preparing for a supported postpartum and breastfeeding journey

This is not your typical childbirth education. This is for the women who want to remember their power and trust their Creator’s design. Enrollment is open now. $300 per couple 💛🫶🏼✨

06/14/2025

✨ Just because we can doesn’t mean we should.

We’ve become so advanced in pregnancy care that we sometimes forget the beauty in what’s meant to be mysterious.

Technology has made it possible to know almost everything about our babies before they’re even in our arms—including their gender. And while I honor that some mothers love knowing early, I also believe there’s something deeply sacred about not knowing.

Waiting to discover your baby’s gender at birth isn’t just “old-fashioned”—it’s biological. That rush of surprise can trigger an incredible release of oxytocin—the very hormone that fuels love, bonding, and helps the uterus contract after birth to protect against hemorrhage. God designed it that way.✨

It’s not about judgment. It’s about tuning into a rhythm that modern life often drowns out. We find comfort in control of knowing all we can know instead of surrendering to the mystery.

Sometimes, mystery is medicine 🫶🏼✨

This was such a powerful moment — when my friends discovered they have their first daughter after three sons 💕

Allison Parker

06/08/2025

❤️‍🩹 With my first two babies, I had this deep knowing that my prenatal care was severely lacking. But I didn’t know what to do about it, where to even begin, or who to talk to.

✨With my third, I chose a home birth with midwives. I left every appointment feeling like their level of care was everything I knew I needed, deserved, and longed for in my first two pregnancies.

🫶🏼If something feels off — even slightly — trust that. You deserve to feel seen, heard, and deeply held during this sacred time. Your prenatal care should be nourishing, relational, and rooted in trust. You should know your provider — and be known by them.

📋 This isn’t just about checkboxes and measurements. It’s about preparing the soil for your birth — body, mind, and soul.

🌿 If your intuition is whispering that something isn’t right, listen. You are allowed to change providers at any time. You’re allowed to choose care that aligns with your values and your vision for birth.

✨You are not “too much” for wanting more.
You are wise. You are in charge. And your care should reflect that.

Pictured here is the lovely Deborah who is now out west running a beautiful practice for families in Southern Utah, 🤍✨

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06/07/2025

✨Yesterday was NATIONAL HOMEBIRTH DAY ✨

To celebrate, I’m sharing some of my thoughts on the matter, some statistics that might make you dig a little deeper, and some photos from recent homebirths (including my own) 🫶🏼✨
parker

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06/05/2025

Hello friends! 🌿
I’m thrilled to share that I’ll soon be offering a virtual holistic pregnancy + childbirth education series — something that’s been on my heart for a long time.

This 4-part series is for women and couples who want to move beyond fear and into full trust of God’s design, the mother’s body, the baby, and the birth process. It can be hard to navigate all the choices of pregnancy and birth, especially when you don’t even know what all your options are.

We’ll explore everything from pre-conception nourishment and pregnancy wisdom to the physiological stages of labor, postpartum preparation, and breastfeeding.
Whether you’re newly pregnant, planning to conceive, or preparing for another birth, this series is for you! 💛

✨ Details + registration will open soon — stay tuned!
Feel free to DM me with questions or to get on the early interest list.

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